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WITH just a week to go to the Budget official figures have confirmed that the National Debt has risen to more than £3 trillion...

BRITAIN’S national debt increased to over £3 trillion last month, rising to £3.005 trillion, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This historic high...

IRAN has called for the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting over the threats by the US and Israeli regime against the...

FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron took to the  airwaves on Sunday night in a desperate attempt to divert the anger of the tens of millions...

PROTESTERS clashed with police in Paris and other French cities on Saturday as over 800,000 people took to the streets, including students and trade...

The revolutionary confrontation between workers and youth erupted across Europe on Saturday engulfing France, Belgium, Portugal, Italy and Albania. In France, the large CGT union...

FRIDAY’S Daily Telegraph was full of praise for Labour Chancellor John Healey’s remarks on the British banks, describing the current banking bankrupts as part...

US human rights organisations have called on members of Congress to intervene urgently and exert pressure to halt US support for Israel, following footage...

CENTRAL bankers and leading finance leaders from across the world gathered in Bangkok this week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students, and teachers demonstrated in Belgium last Friday against the Belgian government’s austerity measures, in a day of action...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had agreed a deal with Russian president Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply hundreds of...

ARRIVING for a rally in Whitehall outside Downing Street, the marchers were told that this was the 37th National Demonstration for Palestine since the...

BRITAIN risks running out of gas stockpiles by the end of winter, raising fears of an energy crisis crippling the country, and leaving millions...

After a one-day pause on Wednesday, the mass mobilisation of students and workers across France resumed yesterday with nearly 400 schools and universities closed...

FRANCE’S central bank governor ruled out intervention by the European Central Bank (ECB) late on Wednesday, as borrowing costs soared on a mounting debt...

TORY leader Kemi Badenoch and her shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge, at their party conference this week, ramped up the war rhetoric unveiling plans...

The US Air Force on Sunday withdrew its entire fleet of bombers from RAF Fairford and returned them back to their home base in...

SPAIN erupted on Saturday as thousands of workers and youth poured onto the streets of 50 cities demanding action triggered by the eviction of...

THE commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force says the United States, despite its vast resources and equipment, has been expelled...

On 4th October 1936 the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney, in the Battle...

DOZENS of publishing staff at Legalease, the publishers of legal industry-bible, The Legal 500, have won a dramatic victory in their industrial dispute over...

OVER 100 people protested outside St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge yesterday to demand that NHS England end its £330 million contract with the...

In his speech to the Labour Party conference on Tuesday Prime Minister Andy Burnham issued a ‘rallying call to the country,’ insisting that we...

A NATIONWIDE strike by public sector workers took place in France on Tuesday with over 170 demonstrations and rallies taking place across the country. Alongside...

Healthcare workers gathered outside Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan last Thursday as part of a nationwide day of action focused on immigrant workers, with...

THE TRADE war against the Chinese workers’ state has been the cornerstone of Trump’s second presidential tenure. However, it has completely failed to bring...

Labour chancellor John Healey will face ‘tough decisions’ in his first budget due next month, according to Emma Reynolds, the Chief Secretary to the...

FIVE pro-Palestinian activists who damaged a factory belonging to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in the southern city of Ulm are being tried behind...

Iran’s military headquarters has warned Middle East nations they’ll be ‘considered complicit’ if the United States resumes major strikes on the country from American...

THE CRISIS engulfing world capitalism is causing panic amongst the leading global capitalist financial experts which is finding expression on the pages of the...

JERUSALEM – Gaza’s Health Ministry has warned that the Strip’s healthcare system is being pushed towards total collapse, with more than 70% of the...

ON WEDNESDAY, Labour’s Chancellor John Healey announced that he has appointed TUC general secretary Paul Nowak to the board of the Bank of England. Healey...

ISRAEL’S Ministry of Construction and Housing has issued the first-ever tender for residential construction in E1, the colony east of occupied Jerusalem that governments...

CRISIS-HIT CAPITALISM is heading for a massive disaster, writes Ambrose Evans Pritchard in the Daily Telegraph. He writes that: ‘Four powerful shocks are hitting the...

THE health and humanitarian sectors in the Gaza Strip are heading for collapse, with international and humanitarian institutions reducing some of their services at...

ON THURSDAY, the Houthi armed forces launched a rapid attack along Yemen’s western coast seizing control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, putting this...

FROM DOUG CRABTREE IN SPAIN A COALITION of an estimated 4,000 dedicated anti-fascists from across Catalunya, assembled on the bustling tourist attraction of the church...

ITALIAN metalworker unions FIM, FIOM and UILM on Wednesday called a strike at Electrolux’s facilities in the country on 15th September, saying there had...

FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband said yesterday that Britain ‘could not simply stand by because we feared Israeli reaction’. This was after Israel ordered the closure...

A WELL attended 200-strong pro-Palestine Festival was held on Sunday to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal) opposite the...

LABOUR issued dire warnings of imminent food shortages in the UK yesterday, warning people that they need to ‘stock up’ if they want to...

‘BRACE, BRACE FOR IMPACT, a financial tsunami is heading for Britain, threatening to sweep away Andy Burnham’s premiership before it even gets started.’ This...

AIRBUS workers in the centres of Getafe (Madrid), San Pablo and Tablada (Sevilla) have decided to maintain the indefinite strike that began last week,...

Yesterday saw a ‘rout’ in the global government bond market with government bonds in the US, UK, Europe and across the world being sold...

On Friday, US president Donald Trump proudly announced that his administration had made a deal with Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez to take control...